Latest Interviews

Global focus: the key to infectious disease control
Added: 31 Oct 2024
President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah expla…

It’s all just a matter of perception
Added: 4 Apr 2022
In anticipation of the announcement of this year’s competition winners, we asked previous winners a…

Catherine Noakes and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)
Added: 14 Dec 2021
As part of a collaborative group of six British expert scientists, Catherine Noakes will join Jonat…

Sharon Peacock and the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)
Added: 14 Dec 2021
As part of our 2021 Royal Institutions Christmas Lecture coverage, we ask Sharon Peacock how discov…

Monitoring: The key to vaccine production and distribution safety
Added: 2 Dec 2021
Manufacturing of any vaccine is a complex process that requires consistent monitoring to ensure eff…

Understanding SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins in vaccines
Added: 13 Sep 2021
The SARS-CoV-2 virus uses complex glycan sugars to hide from the immune system. Tasked with product…

COVID-19: Testing times for laboratories
Added: 7 May 2021
Following what may have felt like a slow uptake of voluntary third-party laboratory testing support…

Delving deeper into AI and blockchain for healthcare and life sciences
Added: 16 Apr 2021
We are all becoming used to hearing about AI and blockchain, two technology trends that go hand in …

Foundational science of the future
Added: 13 Jan 2021
Traditionally pharma has been focused on developing small molecules and chemicals. Here, David Ferr…

Inhouse genetic analysis
Added: 7 Jan 2021
Here, Dr Philip Hargreaves (business development) and Gabriela Saldanha (product management) discus…

To improve reproducibility; look first to pipetting
Added: 4 Jan 2021
With years of experience and expertise with pipettes, Gustavo Chavarria outlines pipetting factors …

Can efficiency and sustainability coexist?
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Allison Paradise, CEO of My Green lab, a non-profit organization and Marc Boreham vice president an…